Molly's First Birthday

Halloween 2014

My baby girls

Remember when I had 2 kids and I took pictures of them with my real camera all the time?

Well I love these girls just as much, even if I don't have photographic evidence.

My big, 9 month Molly!

- I love how you shake your bum when you hear a song (especially Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off")

- I love how when you stretch out long and close your eyes, your chubby face gets all squished up

- I love your fast crawl 

-  love how you laugh at your siblings 

- I love how you eat everything and anything

- Daddy does not love the big mess you make when feeding yourself, but mommy loves that you can do it on your own!

- I love how big and independent you are, crawling around and playing on your own, but I miss the baby cuddles

- I love that you are still growing with no formula, just nursing.  You are my first baby to do this!

- You love your siblings, playing with the toys in the drawers in the TV room and being patted or rocked to sleep.  You also love your binky. You love when you hear your siblings laughing and having fun and you crawl over quickly to join in. Nothing gets you more excited than when you hear your siblings electric toothbrush turn on and you are constantly trying to grab it.

- You still do not love the gym daycare although you are getting used to strangers.  

You are one loved 9 month old Miss Molly!  We are glad you are ours!

Molly - 8 months

This baby is so much fun.  Seriously, I love this big, squishy baby!!  I have joked with people that Molly is my biggest baby because I am all soft and squishy too (from not getting to workout, thanks to my gym's daycare policy) but now that I am nearing 9 months (when my other 3 babes were tiny and starving and I finally switched to formal) and this baby is happy, squishy and healthy....I'm thinking there is probably some truth to it.  Who knows?  But she is easy, happy and just so fun to snuggle.  She doesn't give away her smiles easily but is getting used to being around other people.  She crawls super fast, pulls up on everything (her favorite thing being her brother's lego table...and I have fished way too many legos out of that little mouth) and she loves to stand for a few seconds at a time on her own.  She does this laugh where she scrunches up her face and breaths in and out of her nose and when she does it I just want to eat her up.  She loves to eat everything and moved to table foods way earlier than an of my other babies.  She still is not sleeping through the night anymore but I love her too much to care.  She loves her siblings and they make her laugh all the time.
Molly Jane, you are the best!

First day of school - 2014

Kate is in 3rd Grade in Mrs Bishop's class.  She is excited to learn multiplication and division.  She thought the first day was really fun and was so excited to see old friends.

Sawyer is in 1st grade and has Mrs Tierney.  He was also really excited about the first day and excited to make some new friends.  This year he wants to learn about planets.  He says his favorite thing so far about 1st grade is snack time.

We got home from Utah on Saturday and started school on Monday.  We had a little bit of a hard time with the time zone transition but things are calming down and getting back to normal.  These kids love school and I sure love them!

Molly - 6 months

1 month, 2 months, 3 months

4 months, 5 months, 6 months

Molly is getting so big!  At 6 months she is sitting up very confidently, getting up on hands and knees (but most often getting into the plank position) and scooting on her belly where she wants to go.  She is kind of a somber baby...she doesn't give smiles easily.  But when she laughs it is BIG.  The kids were blowing bubbles on the back porch to her and she was going crazy....so we were too.  

She has been afraid of people since very early on but I think we broke her of that after having grandmas and grandpa here for a while.  She is letting people hold her and being happy with them more and more.  She still is our babied baby and gets rocked to sleep.  She occasionally will sleep through the night but likes to see her mom once a night usually.  She is so soft and squishy, especially on her upper thighs.  I can't get enough of eating this girl!  

When I make kissing noises to her she will make a noise back at me and she loves when you lay her on your lap and play peek a boo with her feet.  

She tried some solid foods and liked it so much one night that she ate quite a bit....and threw it up all night long.  We don't do a lot of throwing up in our house so having a baby dry heaving was a new experience and very upsetting.  Since then she will eat maybe 3 bites of something and then she is done.  I'm not sure if that is related or not, but I know I'm scared to feed her still!  '

6 months is a huge milestone for us because it means she can FINALLY go to the daycare at the gym.  We haven't tried it yet because we have had guests but I'm hoping she takes to it well.  That also marks the end of the longest and hardest post partum, no exercise time that I have experienced!!  YEA!

Molly Jane is such a joy to have in our family and we just love her so much!    

Kate's Baptism

 Kate was baptized by her Daddy at the Hanover, NH building on June 21, 2014.  It was a beautiful day with friends and family.  She was baptized with her friend Callie, who we are sad is moving this summer!  We are so proud of our beautiful Kate and the choice that she made!